Interviews
Discover interviews with fintech founders, executives, and innovators shaping the future of finance. Fintech Review spotlights real-world insights, growth journeys, and leadership lessons from across the fintech, crypto, and SaaS ecosystems.
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Is Cash still King? Interview with Simon James
Cash is king. Or so we have been told for many years. It has been the king of assets for many years. Covid-19 tried to kill it. But the king is still right here, alive and well… Or is it? Is it still king? Fintech Review asked a few questions to Simon James, Co-President of…
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What Next for Banking-as-a-Service? Interview with Sankaet Pathak
Everybody is familiar with Software-as-a-Service or SaaS. It is the prevalent way to sell software these days. The days of the purchase of a CD to install a software are long gone. Everything can be “as-a-service”. What about Banking-as-a-Service or BaaS? Is it the same as SaaS? Fintech Review asked a few questions to Sankaet…
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ESG Stocks Investing Is Recession Proof: Interview with Victor Basta
We live in a tumultuous world. You could even say that we live in a twilight world, for all the Tenet’s fans out there. After years of relative calm in the investment realm, across virtually all asset classes, things are changing. By calm we mean steady growth and small bumps on the road. Even the…
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Mobile App Security, Hype or Necessity? Interview with Victor Tuson Palau
Mobile devices are becoming the way consumers access banking services. It is not anymore complementary to internet, desktop banking, but rather replacing it. That means that mobile app security is often undersestimated. It’s great that it can fit in our pockets but it also means that it can be accessed over untrusted networks or worse.…
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What is the Future of ID Verification? Interview with Joshua Read
Anybody who has ever opened or tried to open a financial service product knows the pain of the onboarding process. Or at least what it used to be. Because thankfully things are changing for the better. One of the biggest frictions is obviously ID verification. What are the latest trends and the future of ID…
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The Promising Future of Cross-Platform Mobile Application: Interview with Abay Serkebayev
Innovation comes in many different shapes and forms. The great fintech revolution has been fantastic and has led us to have lots of mobile applications stored in our smartphones. Really a lot. The fragmentation or unbundling of financial services has meant many different touchpoints on both Android and Apple smartphones. Maybe we have too many…
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The Bright Future of Emerging Market currencies: Interview with Mike Robertson and Adrian Brown
The world of currencies is definitely an interesting one. Not even talking about the elephant in the room, cryptocurrencies, which steal the show these days. But that’s tiny in our big wild world. Rather let’s talk about good old currencies. A world that goes far beyond the almighty US Dollar, the Euro, or the Great…
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Why the Financial Sector is Leading the Way in Digital Employee Experience
When we talk about digital experience, it seems that the focus is only on customer experience. It makes sense, at the end of the day, customers are the ones paying the bills. It should be, unless you are a fintech startup and everything is free until you figure out how to monetise. However, at the…
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The Astonishing Growth of Payments in Esports: Interview with Kamran Hedjri
The payments industry is a vast and complex world. As a start, what do we really mean when we talk about payments? It can mean a thousand different things to a thousand different persons. Within specific industries, the needs can be quite divergent. That is what makes it so interesting. What about the growth of…
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Payments orchestration: what’s next? Interview with Kristian Gjerding
Payments are like an opera, they need a conductor otherwise it is a lot of noise and not at all a symphony. Why? Because similarly, it would be as if all the musicians play at the same time without coordination. Just a lot of noise and hard to follow what is really going on. What…
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Future of Finance Management: Interview with Deepak Narayanan
Innovation and digital transformation is everywhere in financial services but also beyond. Finance operations and the way most businesses operate, manage their day-to-day and long term finances is changing fast. Transforming companies from in the inside. What is going on in finance management? Fintech Review asked a few questions to Deepak Narayanan, Founder & CEO…
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How Terrible is the Crypto Winter Going to Be? Interview with Shane Rodgers
Brace yourself, winter is coming. It is going to be a long and cold one. The actual winter, given the current energy crisis that is affecting a number of countries around the world. If this is not a worry, lucky you! But what about the Crypto Winter? Although not a yearly occurence like the actual…
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Remarkable Future of Credit Cards: Interview with David Boyd
Credit cards have been around for quite a while. These little pieces of plastics started to be issued as early as the 1920s by stores to let loyal customers spend more easily. Fast forward to today, and things have changed quite a lot. And not so much at the same time. Of the 2.8 billion…
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Tackling the Cost of Living Crisis: Interview with Suzanne Jones
Fintech is all about solving big problems. At least, it should be. One of the most important premises of fintech is that it is a wave of innovation that is changing financial services for the better. Ultimately changing the world for the better. It is obviously quite exciting when fintech startups decide to attack seemingly…
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Mobile Device Financing: Interview with Clint Fayling
Smartphones and other mobile devices are becoming ever more expensive. Even if Tim Cook says that Apple products are not just rich people. Maybe we just have a different understanding of what it means to be rich… If a smartphone is worth two thirds of the average monthly income, or even half, that’s not affordable.…
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Predicting Cashflow Needs: Interview with Simon Draper, Co-Founder of Monspire
Cash is king. Actually, for businesses, cashflow is king. This is what defines the success or the demise of a company. You can sell all the products or services in the world… What really matters is how much cash there is left at the end of the week or month. What happens if you do…
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The Future of Banking-as-a-Service:Â Interview with Trent Sorbe
What is going on in Banking-as-a-Service, also known as BaaS? If you are not familiar with the concept, it is time to educate yourself a little bit. Simply because it is one of the fastest-growing segments of fintech. It does not seem to suffer any of the downturn that we can see recently in other…
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What’s Next for Supply Chain Finance? Interview with Noam Mani
With all that fintech innovation all over the place… one would think that everything has been solved. Not so fast, muchacho. There is still plenty of things to do. A lot of different parts of the financial service industry are still widely inefficient. Some are still huge problems, in dolar terms, to solve. And some…
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Future of Financial Operations: Interview with Orkhan Abdullayev
Fintech is great. So many new possibilities and features for businesses, from payments to banking solutions. Absolutely awesome. Until it is not. As businesses scale, their financial operations tend to become really complex. How do you manage all that complexity? Fintech Review asked a few questions to Orkhan Abdullayev, CEO and Co-founder of Payrails, on…
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Future of Real Asset Platforms: Interview with Manuela Seve
Are you wondering was is next for real asset platforms? Given all the noise with NFTs… Unless you have never heard of NFTs, which is possible… but unlikely! Fintech Review asked a few questions to Manuela Seve, Chief Executive Officer of alphaa.io to decode all this garbled noise… Tell us more about Alpha’a. What is…
